Life — August 10, 1905 — page 9: what you’re looking at

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The Folly of Being Caught. T scems a pity whom we have been accustom that so many of our eminent men 1 to look up to :ould have been caught doing wrong things. An Insurance Company, to protect not only the men themselves but the publ large, ought to be once is extremely discouraging to any ambitious youth who starts out to make as much money as he can, either by hook or by crook, to feel that while he may run along for years as a model citizen, there is absolutely no guarantee that some day he may not wake up and find himself in ous. recr of the Honorable Depew been pointed out one to emulate! An orator, a statesman, a financier, and one who declared to immense audiences in England not so many years ago, t philosophy be as it may, the religion of his mother’s knee was good enough for him. When lo! one day we wake up to discover our Chauncey for sever drawing a salary from the Equit for no other reason than to preserve uch a readjustment of a popular idol ought not to be permitted. Our ideals of civic and personal honor are too sacred to permit them to be tampered with by zealous and public officials. any, of which pos- sibly we already have enough, there ought at ast to be a society for the suppr the truth about How many times has the c Chauncey years has been ble, apparently harmony.” sion of at pa PM men Cc N = As long as they are not caught, it doesn’t matter what they do. But it is a matter of keen regret that the A HIGH SOCIAL | POSITION. our gr being caught should ightly upon the shoul- responsibility of ntly rest £0 ppa ders of those whom we have been wont to respect for their cleverness. + ETF E- 179 In a certain sense we must take off our hats to the genuine Grafter, who tells us he is out for everything he can get. About him there is no illusion. We respect him not for what he is, but for what he doesn’t try to be. The other class we also respect, long as they are not caught. But it is very sad when they are. Those of us who have children like to point with pride to some eminent citizen for them to emulate. to become common to probe too much into the lives and motives of citizens, the matter becomes a great deal of a gamb! “There, my son,” we say to our eldest born, “look at the great Jonathan Smith, who started as a poor boy and is now the head of several financial institutions, an honored diplomatist and trustee for the property of half a million.” The next day our son reads that Jonathan Smith has. been caught with the goods. And thenceforth he puts a all our advice. The honor and virtue of the rising generation demand But if it is goin; mental grain of salt on FOR THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE, from our public men that they should not be caught. Let them take this to heart and keep up at least a respectable bluff. To be found out in these days is the unpardonable sin. Drawing the Line. OVERNOR VARDAMAN and the trustees of the University of Mississippi refusing a gift of Mr. Car- egie's money, on the ground that the latter has been coined from the blood and tears of the toiling masses,"” shows that the cheap money craze has its limits, after all. Mississippi will stand for the coinage of pewter, sawdust, or baled hay, but the blood and tears of the toiling masses are too common, and becoming all the time more so, True Blue. i I he a consistent Christian Scientist “Absolutely. Why, he has even sold his lot in the cemetery.” comicbooks.com